Since Friday, we‘ve seen over 6,000 people crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy – bringing the total this year to over 43,000. These massive arrivals and the fact that more than 1,150 people have either disappeared or lost their lives while trying to reach Europe since the beginning of the year show that rescue at […]

Germany’s Merkel to press Saudi Arabia on refugees’ rights

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, where she is expected to press royals on a number of sensitive issues, including taking in refugees, while also boosting important business ties in her first visit to the country in seven years. Merkel met King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah and […]

EU calls for urgent protection of 23,000 child refugees left stranded in camps

Urgent action is needed to help at least 23,000 unaccompanied child refugees stranded in squalid and unsafe Greek and Italian refugee camps, an official EU audit has warned. Camp life in Greek and Italian “hotspots” – holding centers set up at migrant arrival points – is plagued by a lack of security safeguards, water, decent […]

Record number of refugees admitted to Canada in 2016, highest since 1980

Canada has admitted the largest number of refugees in a single year in nearly four decades, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The resettlement of 46,700 refugees in 2016 marks a “tremendous achievement” and a record for Canada since 1978, when the Immigration Act came into effect, the UNHCR representative […]

Vanessa Redgrave makes directorial debut with film about refugee crisis

The sight of a Syrian toddler’s lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach was among the horrors that drove Vanessa Redgrave to make her directorial debut with a feature documentary about the refugee crisis, she said. The 80-year-old Oscar-winning actor and political activist have long campaigned for refugees, but the shocking images of three-year-old Alan Kurdi made her […]

Germany Finds Fast Way to House a Flood of Refugees

Germany has taken in more than one million migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who need affordable places to live, without being forced into segregated spaces that can breed isolation and violence. Now urban planners in Germany’s financial hub are offering a solution: the homie. Starting in 2016, low-rise, modular homes—sponsored by the […]

Immigration Department evaluations of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to welcome 26,000 refugees from war-torn Syria reveal high rates of unemployment, costly barriers to rental housing and difficulties shifting from Arabic to French or English. Although many refugee families are doing relatively well after their first 12 months in Canada, when they’re supported mostly by […]

EU falls short of goal for relocating refugees: Report

European countries have relocated only 10 percent of the refugees they promised to shelter by this September, figures from the European Commission showed Wednesday. According to the commission’s 11th Relocation and Resettlement Report, the total number of relocations stands at 16,340 since last March, far below its 160,000 goals for relocating refugees from Greece and […]

United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday struggled to justify the hypocrisy between President Donald Trump’s claimed humanitarian reason for Syrian airstrikes, and his opposition to admitting Syrian refugees, many of whom are children. Haley, asked to reconcile Trump’s vehement opposition to refugees with his explanation that he ordered last week’s attack after seeing pictures of “beautiful babies” killed in a chemical […]

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Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]

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An Iranian refugee who stitched up his eyes, lips and ears in protest at the threat of deportation today vowed to continue his hunger strike unless the Government reviewed its procedures on asylum applications.